An internal investigation of the Transportation Security Administration
revealed security failures at dozens of the nation’s busiest airports,
where undercover investigators were able to smuggle mock explosives or
banned weapons through checkpoints in 95 percent of trials, ABC News has
learned.
The series of tests were conducted by Homeland Security Red Teams who pose as passengers, setting out to beat the system.
According
to officials briefed on the results of a recent Homeland Security
Inspector General’s report, TSA agents failed 67 out of 70 tests, with
Red Team members repeatedly able to get potential weapons through
checkpoints.
In one test an
undercover agent was stopped after setting off an alarm at a
magnetometer, but TSA screeners failed to detect a fake explosive device
that was taped to his back during a follow-on pat down.
Officials would not divulge the exact time period of the testing other than to say it concluded recently.
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